I would like you to point you to a small success of socialism in the EU. There is a small country in the periphery that recently elected a social democrat government and this weekend also a matching president. This is quite unique in EUstan as these are political forces quite different than the rest of the "left" in the EU. This was illustrated by the fact that the governing party was - as a matter of congratulation for their election victory in the national elections - expelled from the "socialist" faction in the EU parliament for not being sufficiently focused on the new "left" orthodoxy in EUstan (the blue yellow and rainbow variety) and instead pledging traditional left values.
Thank you Ramin for your invaluable insight.
I would like you to point you to a small success of socialism in the EU. There is a small country in the periphery that recently elected a social democrat government and this weekend also a matching president. This is quite unique in EUstan as these are political forces quite different than the rest of the "left" in the EU. This was illustrated by the fact that the governing party was - as a matter of congratulation for their election victory in the national elections - expelled from the "socialist" faction in the EU parliament for not being sufficiently focused on the new "left" orthodoxy in EUstan (the blue yellow and rainbow variety) and instead pledging traditional left values.
This country is of course Slovakia.
Excellent point, thanks for sharing.
Economics is the objective, ideology is a tool. To turn ideology into an objective is to ignore human needs/wants, i.e. Maslow Hierarchy of Needs
An interesting point, but without proper ideology/morality how can Maslow's final goal of self-actualisation be reached?
An ideology should merely be one of a repertoire of tools. If hammer is the only tool in the toolbox, then all problems look like nails.
AB tests everything in life, even ideology. But that is just an opinion from a layman. 😬
In political "science" - which is no science - we're all just laymen!